THE NEXT SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. On Tuesday, voters in South Carolina will choose a Republican nominee for the Senate to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died of heart problems on July 11. There’s a good chance the race will go to a runoff, which will happen on Aug. 25.

There are several declared candidates, but three with a chance of winning. One is Darline Graham, the late senator’s sister, who surprised the state when, after the governor appointed her to fill out the last few months of Lindsey Graham’s term, she announced that she would also run for the full six-year term to come. The other two contenders are Republican members of the House, Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Russell Fry (R-SC). Expect the runoff to be some combination of two of the three.

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Here’s the bigger point in this election. The next senator from South Carolina, whether it is Darline Graham, Ralph Norman, or Russell Fry, will be radically different from Lindsey Graham. Different in this way: the next senator will not share the fixation on foreign policy, and especially on military conflict, that marked Lindsey Graham’s 24 years in the Senate.

Do not expect a Sen. Norman, or a Sen. Fry, or a new Sen. Graham, to spend much time hanging out in Kyiv or Tel Aviv or Kabul. Don’t expect them to become close buddies with foreign presidents and prime ministers. Don’t expect them to take a leading role advocating for this or that new war. That’s just not their thing, nor will it be the top interest of the voters who send them to Washington. There’s no doubt, looking at their campaigns, that they are not seeking to become foreign policy/national security........

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